Try our the bush trips (which are essentially grand tours as they also cover everything from the bush to population centers). Essentially a great guided tour of places you never expected to visit, but you’ll be glad you did…enjoy
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Amazing stuff - thanks for building and sharing these!
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This is what I did, I started in Los Angelas Airport and flew to Sacremento (The Capital) and looked for the State Capital Building. Found it and then from sacremento to Nevada and flew to Carson City and found the Capital building…I just kept flying to each of the 50 states and found the Capital buildings. Along the way there is nice scenery and you always have a scheduled flight. Works for me.
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Wow, I have never seen so many great ideas under one post in my life on sim forums. I read all of this. Thanks for all the awesome suggestions. I have been using Air Hauler 2 for a few months. It’s ok, but sometimes a bit restrictive. I will certainly check out all of these suggestions. I’m always up to try something new or different. Thanks everyone. And keep adding more if you wish.
This community is awesome.
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As some have said set a goal and try it.
I visited each capital city in Europe (VFR so I could admire the scenery).
Just flown west coast to east coast United States following the route of interstate 80 (San Francisco to New Jersey).
Next up is each states capital one after the other.
Once I’ve done that I think I’m going to fly down the east coast from Canada to Argentina following the Gulf of Mexico for added mileage!
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I do have about 50000 (exaggeration) hours on flight sims in the past 40 years. I think most of it was in the USA flying. I know world geography quite well, but still I am not sure of many great places to fly outside of the USA.
European capitals (with a couple of other notable locations) was interesting. Started in Iceland, UK then on to France, Spain etc. The terrain is so varied. Most flights were between 1-2 hours but many shorter.
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You could probably spend two weeks exploring in Iceland alone, I bet. The world is frigging huge lol.
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There’s quite a few small airstrips around Iceland as well. Some rather interesting to fly into.
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I’ve been wanting to fly the old Route 66 across the us.
I’ve also thought about flying the old US Airmail transcontinental route.
It would be cool if MSFS featured the concrete marker beacon arrows which the pilots followed cross country.
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Here are a few things I’ve done.
I flew to every US Special Airport listed here: Special Pilot-In-Command Qualification Airport List: Updates (faa.gov)
I’ll plan to fly to all of non-US destinations listed in the document above at some point.
I’ve also toured Europe and North Africa recently by flying to every destination listed on Wikipedia for EasyJet and Ryanair. Over 300 locations.
Great stuff @WaldoP3pper. I am just finishing up my latest video on that very subject - should be out in about a week. It’s absolutely fascinating history. Cheers.
This is not a problem for me once I figure out which plane I want to fly. There are so many options. If I want to fly the FBW Airbus, I open up A Pilot’s Life, and fly my next scheduled flight. It’s a simple app with a poor UI, but it’s alright for simulating the career of a pilot. I fly for United out of O’Hare.
If I want to fly some GA, I launch SkyPark, which has tons of curated tours and flights. Compared to A Pilot’s Life, SkyPark has a MUCH better UI, frequent updates, and devs that actually care and communicate. I lean pretty heavy on the tours they offer, and am currently flying the Milviz PC6 Porter along the Amazon River. SkyPark allows you to fly any plane in your hangar.
ORBX’s Volanta has some new features that can help you find places to fly. Basically, you can choose a starting airport, and then have Volanta find real routes for you. What I love about this feature is you can filter it to only show you routes that go to destinations where you have custom airports installed. This works great for finding airline flights quickly.
World Tour Flights is a nice resource for GA & bush flying. This is a community driven site where players create, upload and share flight plans with each other with a focus on exploring and discovering interesting parts of the world. This is a really great resource.
There are some really good Discord communities too that share flight plans. My favorite is GotGravel’s Discord, where you can find plans for the Silver Spitfire world tour, The Seven Continents tour, and various other plans shared every day.
I played OnAir for several months when MSFS released and really enjoyed it. The only thing that made me switch from it is the insane time sink required once you’ve hired some employees. Basically, there wasn’t any really good ways to automate their work flow, so you had to do a LOT of manual work to make sure your company was efficient. This very well may have changed, and I’ll reinstall it tonight and check myself. OnAir requires you to purchase your planes in-app, so you can’t fly anything in your hangar until you buy it.
NeoFly is another fantastic one, which several people have mentioned alread. I use this for bush flying around Alaska, but I haven’t played it enough to afford multiple planes yet. Like OnAir, you have to purchase your planes in-app before you can use them.
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I just tried your NA Tour using Kodiak 100. It doesn’t show the GPU route. Any thoughts on what might have gone wrong? Thanks.
Not sure. The only problems I have had in the past are the general bugs that have affected all bush trips. Not sure if this is a SU8 issue but I’ll try it at my end and see what happens.
It could be designed that way in the sim itself - VFR map shows the route but no route showing in the GPS? I checked a default bush trip and it was also this way.
I think that’s how they are supposed to be. It’s about you reading a map and flying the route by sight rather than following the GPS.
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